I doubt it's fair anyways. Prizes are mostly given to mods and their buddies. They could make it transparent how they pick winners, but they don't. That's why I didn't even bother to participate.
I want to address something about the recent “Eddie’s Missing” Creative Competition because I think many participants feel the same disappointment.
The event was heavily presented as a creative competition — with storytelling, themed submissions, community participation, and encouragement for people to put effort into creating unique entries. Naturally, many of us assumed this meant creativity, originality, effort, and quality would actually influence the outcome.
People spent hours:
creating edits
designing submissions
searching for details
brainstorming ideas
putting genuine effort into participating
because the competition was framed in a way that suggested merit-based judging.
However, the winners announcement later stated that winners were:
“randomly selected players who guessed right.”
That completely changes the nature of the competition.
A random draw and a creative contest are not the same thing.
If winner selection was always intended to be random among correct submissions, then creativity and effort ultimately had no influence on the result. Someone who spent 5 minutes had the same odds as someone who spent 5 hours crafting a thoughtful entry.
That’s the disappointing part.
This is not about being upset over losing. Losing is part of every competition. The issue is about transparency and expectation.
Calling something a “creative competition” creates the expectation that entries will be evaluated creatively. If randomness determines the winners, then the event should be clearly presented as a giveaway, raffle, or random participation draw from the beginning.
Many participants invested real time and energy because they believed the quality of their work mattered.
A more fair and transparent system could have been:
judged winners based on creativity
community voting
shortlisted best entries
separate prizes for random participation
But presenting it as a creative competition while selecting winners randomly feels misleading to a lot of participants.
I’m posting this respectfully because I genuinely think transparency matters in community events like these. People are far more willing to participate when expectations are clear and effort is actually valued.
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